Elia Locardi

Locardi teaching in the field

Elia Locardi (born 1980) is an American photography professional specialized in travel photography, landscape photography, aerial photography and videography. He is best known for his recreations of color images of renowned landscape and travel subjects from dozens of countries, which have been said to "portray the world in bold, vivid color, and bring landscapes and moments to life in ways that immerse the viewer".[1] Locardi is also a well known photography blogger, educator, speaker and entrepreneur.[2][3][4][5][6]

Education and career

Locardi graduated in media art and animation from the Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale in 2002. After a decade working in the media arts and animation industry, and travelling, Locardi launched a career in photography. His photographic themes have been natural landscapes, cityscapes, ancient architecture and world heritage sites. His work has been published in National Geographic, Digital Photo Magazine, Digital Camera Magazine, and Professional Photographer Magazine. Likewise, Locardi's drone pictures and footage have been praised in specialized online and book sources.[7][8][9]

Together with his wife Naomi Locardi, in 2010 he founded a photography-oriented website Blame The Monkey, an American blog focusing on travel photography inspiration and education. The blog shares stories of the photographers' experiences being global nomads living on the road[10] and the techniques used in the creation and postprocessing of travel photography images. The blog also shares online educational resources in the form of photography tutorials. Blame The Monkey was voted "Best New Blog for Photographers" by Scott Kelby, in his roundup of 55 best of things in 2011.[11]

Locardi has created a digital processing method he calls "Advanced Dynamic Blending."[12] Using multiple exposures over a long time span (up to several hours), he is able to capture the full dynamic range of light in a scene.[13]

Alone or in association, Locardi has participated in the development of tutorials and other educational material on photography and postprocessing techniques as applied to travel, landscape, cityscape, desert nightscape, and astro-photography, among others.[13][14]

He was still photographer for the documentary film How I Became an Elephant (2012),[15] and worked capturing aerial drone footage for a documentary film on Bhutan's annual Tour of the Dragon bicycle race (2015).[16]

Locardi has been an invited speaker at Photoplus Expo (NYC),[17] Photokina (Germany 2014, 2016),[18][19] InterBee (Tokyo),[20] PNE (Beijing), Gulf Photo Plus,[6][21] Out of Chicago Conference,[22] and South Carolina ASMP, Southeastern Film & Photo Conference.[23]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Focus on instructors: Elia Locardi". ucsandiegoextension.wordpress.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ "It’s guest blog wednesday featuring elia locardi!". scottkelby.com. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Lebendig, Usnea. "The ultimate guide to travel photography". www.picturecorrect.com. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Elia Locardi". community.wacom.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Elia Locardi, One of the Most Amazing Photographers in the World". youqueen.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "About Elia Locardi". www.elialocardi.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Cade, DL. "Drone Footage So Beautiful it Made a Local Italian Woman Cry". iso.500px.com. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ "DJI Turns 10 With Above the World: Earth Through A Drone's Eye". www.newsledge.com. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ teNeues (September 15, 2016). Above the World: Earth Through A Drone's Eye. teNeues. ISBN 978-3832733773. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Photographer Elia Locardi Takes His Sense of Home on the Road". community.wacom.com. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  11. ↑ "My 'Best of 2011' Awards". scottkelby.com. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ De Boom, Cedric. "Blending Moments in Time". cedricdeboom.github.io. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  13. 1 2 "Photographing The World with Elia Locardi". www.bruisedpassports.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Fstoppers Landscape Photography Tutorial With Elia Locardi Is Now Available". fstoppers.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  15. ↑ "How I Became an Elephant". www.imdb.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Thestorybehindtheshot". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved Sep 12, 2016.
  17. ↑ Lazell, Jeff. "Photo Plus Expo 2014 Photo Walk in NYC!". blog.xritephoto.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Fujifilm announce the line-up of X-Photographers speaking on the Photokina 2014 stand". www.fujifilm.eu. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Photographers to appear in Live talk". fujifilm-x.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Hasselblad hosting DJI event with Elia Locardi". www.hasselblad.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Desert Nightscapes and Post-processing". gulfphotoplus.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Do not miss Elia Locardi". outofchicago.com. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  23. ↑ "ASMP South Carolina Presents Southeastern Film & Photo Conference". www.asmp.org. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  24. ↑ "Top Travel Photography Bloggers Exposed in New Readers' Choice Poll". 10Best. USA Today Travel Media Group. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  25. ↑ Scott Kelby. "Scott's Top Five List Of Everything! (revisited)". Retrieved September 9, 2016.
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